You’ve likely heard before that your favorite color says something about your personality. It’s all so subjective, mostly based on culture, aesthetic associations, and context. But we at the Breast Cancer Site thought we’d use these color associations for good!

We think your favorite color is much more far-reaching than a simple peep-hole into your personality. We think it can also tell you something important about how you battle cancer. We’ve come up with our own “color personality” quiz based on the classic crayon colors, with meanings that we think you will agree with.

Curious about what your best cancer-fighting strategy could be? Well, here’s one way to find out…or at least open your eyes a little bit more to your own strengths and weaknesses.

In the quiz below, we’ve compiled several collections of photographs. Simply tell us which image out of each group is your favorite, the one that speaks to you the most. Then we’ll take your answers and attempt to tell you something you may not have known about your innermost feelings about your experience with cancer.

Red

Red means you’re passionate. Red is for the bright blood that pumps through your veins. Red is for the fire you posses that keeps others warm when their spirit grows cold. You’re the type to proudly show off your beautiful bald head. And red is for your heart, which you gladly share with others.

Orange

Orange meansyou are strong. Orange isthe strength to push through your fight. Orange is for the hundreds of glasses of OJthat you drank every morning before going to chemotherapy. Orange is for the setting sun after a hard day and for the warmth of the rising sun which keeps you moving into the future.

Yellow

Yellow means youare full of hope. Yellow represents the flowers of spring, when the earth is reborn anew after the cold winter. Yellow is for the honey bees who keep those flowers blooming and still know how to dance! Yellow is the sick feeling having cancer gives you, but it’s also the courage you have to push past the fear, knowing something good is in your future.

Green

Green means that you are full of growth. It represents the budding plants around us that keep the world full of oxygen. It is for deep breathing with your eyes closed. Green means that you won’t stop becoming the person you’re meant to be, even if cancer seems to have stopped your whole life in its tracks. Green also means that, like the forest, you are full of life, strength, and resilience.

Blue

Blue means you are calm. Blue is for the deep sea waves that relax your tense nerves when there is a storm inside you. It means stability and wholeness. Blue is for your family and friends who, while the world seems to be falling apart, keep you tranquil so that you may win this battle!

Purple

Purple says that you are unique. Purple is a color that is not often found in nature and stands out against the crowd. You’re one to rock those colorful head scarves! Purple means that your contribution to the world is unlike anyone else’s and that you as an individual are an important piece of the network that surrounds you. Purple means you’re going to do this your own way, even if it’s a way no one else has tried before. But it may be the best way of all.

Pink

Pink means you are aleader. You are a strong member of the breast cancer community, whose flag is a pink ribbon. Pink is the color fortriumph over breast cancer, the color of never giving up, even in the most dire of circumstances. Pink is a hand held firmly. And pinkmeans solidarity, that none of us have to go through thisalone!

Black

Black means that you arepowerful. Thenight sky is painted in large swaths of black, and this blackness contains the stars above. Black represents the infinite capacity youshare to handle whatever life throws at you and the ability tomake your stamp on the world. Your cancer battle will change the lives of others for years to come.

Which image speaks to you?

Which image speaks to you?

Which image speaks to you?

Which image speaks to you?

Which image speaks to you?

Elizabeth Nelson is a wordsmith, an alumna of Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, a four-leaf-clover finder, and a grammar connoisseur. She has lived in west Michigan since age four but loves to travel to new (and old) places. In her free time, she. . . wait, what’s free time?